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Books: A Memoir | 
 enlarge | Author: Larry Mcmurtry
Publisher: ibooks
Category: Book
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 72141
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster Hardcover Ed
Pages: 272
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 1416583343
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416583349
ASIN: 1416583343
Publication Date: July 8, 2008
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The master writer is also a bookman... July 30, 2008
Bill Pullman (USA)
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I came to know McMurtry as many did through his excellent novel Lonesome Dove. Then I learned I already knew him through the many screenplays and novels he has written that became major motion pictures: Hud, Last picture show, terms of endearment to name a few. I have since read most of what he has written. I heard he owned an eclectic used antique book store filled with many hard to find books many collector items, his novel Cadillac Jack was about an antique book scout. So I was interested to read this memoir of McMurtry's life as a bookman. I use the term Bookman because you don't have to be a writer to be a bookman. McMurtry's simple mastery of the language is again on display as he takes on his journey of becoming a book scout and collector. The characters he meets and the places he travels are brought vividly to life. He ends up opening used book stores that carry rare and collectable editions, the eclectic of which is the one he opens in his home town of Archer City Texas (also the setting for the last Picture show, and subsequent sequels). McMurtry gives the reader an adventurous and some time comic look into the world of those who collect and covet rare books, a world inhabited by some strange birds! What I enjoyed most about this book, however, was the insight into how the many books he has read has formed his literary outlook and influenced his writings ( I have more than I few new books on my to be read list after finishing this book). This is a book I will read more than once.
I also Recommend "Across the High Lonesome" which I picked up after seeing it recommended by McMurtry
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